Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

If you would know and not be known live in a city.

If a cause be good the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defense of it by its friends.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

Most plagiarists like the drone have neither taste to select industry to acquire nor skill to improve but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared from the hive.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

He buried his hands in the rich velvet of her hair. “I thought I’d die for wanting you.

If you look for beauty, you will find it.

I understand now that you cannot fight for a noble cause with heinous actions.

She was smiling. And it's all I ever wanted.

I think a lot of that album ["Tonight" ] is still very good . . . the songs, but I think I was indifferent to the arrangements.

The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.